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Sun Chief Calls Out IBM, Demands Compatibility
downbad writes "Sun's President, Jonathan Schwartz, yesterday published an Open Letter to the CEO of IBM, Sam Palmisano, in which he alluded to "behavior reminiscent of an IBM history many CIOs would like to forget" - a reference to Sun's frustration that IBM isn't supporting Solaris 10 with WebSphere, DB2, Tivoli, Rational and MQSeries products. In his "Dear Sam" letter - circulated via his blog - Schwartz refers first to the "long history of partnering" between Sun and IBM, and claims Sun customers have made repeated calls to IBM about having the choice to run IBM products on Solaris 10." *cough* Kettle, meet Pot.
A battle between two for-profit companies over market share adn interoperability. Why is this a headline on Slashdot? I mean, we're all commie pinko Open Source advocates that work soley for charitable organizations.
...has made a number of bad business decisions in the last couple decades, most notably selling their souls to Windows/DOS, something they've paid for (literally) in the long run.
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